Laurent Laplante
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Laurent Laplante | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joseph Lucien Laurent Laplante March 3, 1934 |
| Died | March 15, 2017 (aged 83) Lévis, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupations | Journalist, essayist, detective writer |
| Spouse | Loretta Laplante |
| Children | 2 |
Joseph Lucien Laurent Laplante (March 3, 1934[1] – March 15, 2017) was a Canadian journalist, essayist and detective writer. He is the author of 20 books.
Career
Laplante taught at Université Laval.[3] He became a journalist for Le Devoir, L’Action, Le Jour, Le Droit and Le Soleil.[2][3] He was also a television and radio presenter,[3] an essayist[2] and the author of 20 books, including detective fiction. He was a member of the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois.[3]
Laplante won the 1996 Olivar-Asselin Award for his defense of the French language in Quebec through his journalism.[2][4] He also received the Genève-Montréal Award for his essay Pour en finir avec l’olympisme in 1998, and the Saint-Pacôme Award for his detective novel Des clés en trop, un doigt en moins in 2002.[2]
